Meatball Soups - a dish known to many hostesses. It is prepared simply and quickly, with a little effort it turns out delicious. The soup has a rather attractive appearance, the meat balls entice not only the kids.
There are perhaps countless options for soups with meatballs. They are cooked mainly with potatoes, and supplemented with vegetables, cereals, noodles. In the collection there are several options for the most popular soups with meatballs. Step-by-step recipes describe in detail how to cook meat or fish meatballs, which stuffing is best to choose.
Potato, noodles, fish or tomato soup with meatballs - choose any step-by-step recipe and delight your loved ones with a fragrant tasty dinner.
General principles of cooking meatball soups with step-by-step recipes
• Meatball soups belong to the category of light dishes. They do not need to cook the broth, the first dish cooked in water. But if you have free time, relying on detailed step-by-step recipes, for soup with meatballs, you can cook the appropriate broth.
• Meatballs are different, but usually small, balls of minced meat, which can be meat, chicken, turkey and even fish. As with any meat dish of minced meat, it is desirable to grind meat or fish yourself. If you use a purchased semi-finished product, purchase only high-quality. Minced meatballs should not be liquid, it is desirable that the pieces of ground meat are clearly defined in it.
• To make meatballs juicy, add onions to them. It is cut into pieces, ground in a grater, or twisted in a meat grinder along with the meat. Season with minced black pepper, it is permissible to use other spices suitable for a particular type of soup. It is necessarily salted, but a little, it should be borne in mind that the soup itself must be salted. Additionally, eggs, breadcrumbs and even breadcrumbs can interfere with the mince.
• Meatballs are often cooked with potato or vermicelli soup, there are variants of this first with vegetables and cereals.
Meatball Potato Soup: A Step-by-Step Recipe
Light soup with hearty meatballs. Minced meat is desirable from two types of meat. Take lean pork and beef in equal parts or use high-quality purchased minced meat. In a step-by-step recipe for soup, meatballs are made from minced meat, in which breadcrumbs interfere. They can be replaced by semolina or crumbs of white bread soaked in water.
Ingredients:
• a pound of meat, preferably mixed minced meat;
• three tablespoons of white bread crumbs;
• five large potatoes;
• mid-size carrot;
• vegetable oil for roasting vegetables;
• small onion head;
• two dark leaves of Lavrushka.
Preparation:
1. Put ready minced meat in a bowl. Add breadcrumbs, a little pepper and salt. Mix thoroughly, incubate for 15 minutes. Breadcrumbs are desirable to take coarse grinding and be surely white. However, you can cook them yourself or replace them with crumbs of white bread. Before you mix bread with minced meat, you need to soak it in water for 10 minutes, and then squeeze it. We make minced meatballs of about 3 cm in size, lay them on the table or on a cutting board.
2. Fill the pot with water. Having poured into a three-liter capacity of not more than two and a half liters, or slightly less, we set on the stove to heat up. While the water is boiling, prepare the vegetables.
3. Peeling carrots, onions and potatoes, wash. Grate carrots on a medium or small grater. Cut potatoes into thin slices or in small cubes, and onion into small slices.
4. Put the potatoes in a pot of boiling water and wait for the boil again. At this time, foam will float to the surface of the water; it must be carefully collected. We turn down the fire, try to set the heat so that the contents of the pan only boil a little. Covering with a lid, leave, and at this time we are engaged in roasting.
5. Pouring about two spoons of butter into a warm frying pan, gently lower the onions and carrots, do not mix the vegetables, turn on the average heat. We do not touch the first 30 seconds, let the vegetables put the juice, then, systematically stirring, fry the carrot and onion until soft. 6. Check the potatoes, get the largest piece and try it. If the potatoes are already soft, lay in the meatball pan. We add the heat, wait for boiling. Rising to the surface of the soup we remove as carefully as the foam from the potatoes.
7. After waiting a quarter of an hour from the laying of meatballs, lay out vegetable roasting in the broth, lower the sweetheart, add some salt. Give the soup to boil on a light fire for about five minutes, and remove from heat.
8. For more flavor, two minutes before the readiness can be added to the soup a little fresh or dried dill.
Easy Tomato Soup with Meatballs: A Step-by-Step Recipe with Vegetables and Rice
A versatile, step-by-step recipe for soup, any mincemeat for meatballs, depending on what kind of taste you want to get. Vegetables and tomato are well combined not only with meat, poultry, but also fish. For satiety rice is added to the soup.
Ingredients:
• one medium fruit of the Bulgarian pepper;
• 350 gr. ground beef;
• two bulbs;
• three spoons of rice;
• one sweet, small carrot;
• three small potatoes of small size;
• 40 ml of lean, highly purified oil;
• bay leaf;
• fresh dill;
• Spoon unsalted tomato paste.
Preparation:
1. Cooking meatballs. Melted one onion, put mince into a bowl, add onion, add salt and put a third of spoonful of ground pepper. We mix everything well with a spoon, then we take the meat mass in our hands and several times sharply strike it on the table. After wetting your hands with water, we make balls of small size of minced meat.
2. Pour some water into a saucepan, quickly heat it up. Immediately by boiling water, we lower the meatballs and cook under the lid for five minutes.
3. Cooking roast. Cut the remaining onion into small pieces, carrot and paprika in small cubes or straws.
4. Pour 2 spoons of oil into a clean pan, slowly warm it, put onions and fry over medium heat. For even steaming, stir periodically. As soon as the onion slices become ruddy, add the carrots and paprika. Cook all together for another three minutes and lay out a tomato with vegetables. Mix well, heat the roast on low heat for about three minutes and turn it off. 5. Peel the potatoes. Cut the tubers into plates, and then cut them into cubes. Reassemble and thoroughly wash with cool water rice.
6. Fill the pan with any prepared broth or water. At the given amount of products will need exactly 2.5 liters of liquid. Bringing to a boil, put potatoes and washed cereal into the pan, wait for the boil again. During this time, you need to stir a couple of times so that the rice does not stick to the bottom. After boiling, remove the heat to medium or slightly lower, and cook the cereal with potatoes for about seven minutes.
7. After that, put the cooked meatballs in the pan and pour the broth remaining in the saucepan. After five minutes, add the roast, bay leaf, prisalivaem and bring to readiness. When the potatoes on the test will be soft, add finely chopped dill. Remove the meatball soup from the heat and leave for a quarter of an hour.
Noodle soup with meatballs: a step-by-step recipe from chicken
Light chicken soup with noodles. In a step-by-step recipe for soup, meatballs are made from breast fillets. For juiciness, the crumb of the long loaf soaked in milk interferes with the stuffing. Vermicelli, it is desirable to take a small, with large pasta first course does not look so impressive.
Ingredients:
• fresh, can be cooled, chicken breast (fillet only) - 400 gr .;
• one and a half liters of water or chicken broth;
• half a cup of small vermicelli;
• small zucchini;
• two small bulbs;
• three sprigs of dill;
• bunch of onion feathers;
• sweet carrot;
• two slices of loaf;
• half a cup of medium fat pasteurized milk;
• vegetable oil of high quality.
Preparation:
1. Rinse the fillet, cut into large chunks and twist in the stuffing. It is advisable to install a grid with the smallest holes, if there is none, twist the chicken twice. For grinding, you can use a blender.
2. Cut off slices of a loaf of rind, fill the pulp with milk, wait ten minutes for it to swell well. Then with hands we squeeze out excess milk from the pulp and put it in a bowl, add mincemeat.
3. Cut a small onion into small cubes or grind with a large grater. Put onion to mince, add some pepper and lightly add. Thoroughly mix the meat mass with your hands, cover the bowl with a lid and remove for half an hour in the refrigerator. 4. While the meat is cooled, prepare the roast. Chop onions and fry it in vegetable oil to amber. In this case, do not forget to periodically mix, so that it steamed and roasted evenly.
5. While onion is pasted, prepare the vegetables. We clean the carrot, cut the skin off the zucchini, cut it in the form of cubes, finely, put it in a frying pan with onions and simmer on very moderate heat for up to five minutes.
6. While roasting is being prepared, we set the water to boil (broth), and form small balls from the chilled minced meat.
7. Put fried vegetables in boiling liquid, boil for 5 minutes, and put the meatballs in soup. Bring to a boil, then boil for seven minutes. Fall asleep in the vermicelli soup and bring it to a boil again. We simmer soup on low heat for three minutes, then remove from heat.
8. Melenko we cut dill and onion feathers. Sprinkle greens soup when serving.
Fish soup with meatballs: a step-by-step recipe with potatoes
Lovers of fish dishes - step-by-step recipe for soup with meatballs from fish. For minced meat it is advisable to use fillets of marine species, their meat contains fewer small bones. As in the case of minced meat, it is added soaked bread or bread crumbs.
Ingredients:
• thawed sea fish fillet - 400 gr .;
• one egg;
• two liters of water;
• 2 small carrots;
• three potatoes;
• bitter onions - 2 heads;
• two spoons of frozen butter;
• a pair of bay leaves;
• set of spices “For fish dishes”;
• any fresh greens and be sure to feather onions for submission.
Preparation:
1. Thawed fish fillets at room temperature are thoroughly washed. If the fish has skin, carefully remove it, but you can leave it. Cut fish large and grind twice with a meat grinder. During the re-grinding, skip through a meat grinder one onion. Lightly salt the minced fish, season it with freshly ground pepper, pour in the egg and stir well. Cover with a lid, put in the fridge for half an hour.
2. Clean the carrots, the remaining onion and potatoes. Carrots and potatoes cut in small, thin cubes, onion into small slices. Fry carrots with onions in vegetable oil to a pleasant golden hue. 3. Fill the pot with water, set to maximum heat. Put the potatoes in boiling water, after boiling for the second time, lay out the vegetable roasting. White foam will rise from the potatoes to the surface of the soup, it should be carefully removed, and this should be done before the addition of roasting. Cook the potatoes until soft.
4. Remove the minced fish from the refrigerator. Having wetted hands with water, we make balls, the size of an average plum. Put the meatballs in the soup when the potatoes are ready. Bringing to a boil, boil the fishballs for a quarter of an hour.
5. Put the bay leaf, add some ready-made spices, add some salt. Remove the soup from the stove and let it stand for 20 minutes.
6. After washing the greens, wipe dry with a linen towel or lay on it. Obsushiv, cut the onion feathers with thin rings, small chop the dill. Sprinkle fish soup with fresh herbs when serving.
Tricks of cooking soups with meatballs for step-by-step recipes - recommendations and tips
• It is not necessary to add an egg to the minced meatballs. It makes them dense and harsh. Pieces of ground meat are well bonded to each other, if the stuffing is good to beat.
• Roasting, although it is prepared in vegetable oil, increases the calorie content of the dish. To make a dietary soup with meatballs for any step-by-step recipe, lay the vegetables raw. If you do not like boiled onions, exclude it or put the whole bulb. After readiness it must be removed.
• It is advisable to grind fish fillets twice, this will get rid of the smallest bones. When assembling the grinder, install the grille with the smallest holes.
